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SUBTITLING STRATEGIES USED IN
THE
CROOD“ MOVIE
A Thesis
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
The completion of Strata 1 Program of English Department
Specialized in Translation
By :
Abiviosha Fahrizal
C11.2012.01347
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
DIAN NUSWANTORO UNIVERSITY
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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Human beings can communicate with each other very well. People may
exchange knowledge, opinions, beliefs, wishes, even feelings and many more.
Moreover, People are able to express our excitement, pleasure, happiness by
laughing. People are able to express anger, fear by crying out, and so on, but it all
happens because of language which stands before communication. Language is a
system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar, or the
system of communication used by the people in a particular country or type of
work. Language definitely has such a major role in human life. Without language,
people are impossible to communicate with each other.
Furthermore, language gives many aspects for the continuity of this
research. One of the most important aspects is that language relates with
translation as a basis to conduct this research. It can be stated that language is a
great-grandfather of translation since translation denotes the communication of
the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language
text. Translation is studying the lexicon, grammatical structure, communication
situation, and cultural context of the source-language text, analyzing it in order to
determine its meaning, and then reconstructing this same meaning using lexicon
and grammatical structure which are appropriate in the receptor language and its
cultural context (Larson, 1984: 3). Translation typically has been used to transfer
written or spoken source-language texts to equivalent written or spoken
target-language texts. In general, the purpose of translation is to reproduce various kinds
of texts including religious, Literary, scientific, and Philosophical texts in another
language and thus making them available to wider readers.
In the study of translation, there are some methods that exist to be learned
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strategy is a pote tially o s ious pro edure for the solutio of a problem which an individual is faced with when translating a text segment from one language to a other Lörs her, 1991, p. . Ho e er, the defi itio offered y ea h author or theorist represents his/her own point of view and their views differ from each
other. Most theorists agree that strategies are used by translators when they
encounter a problem and literal translation does not work. Therefore, different
researchers have investigated and described various translation strategies from
their own perspectives.
Translation strategies appear in many media, such as in short story,
advertisement, poetry/poem, novel, social network and still many more. However,
the translation strategies are more interesting to be appeared in movies. Besides,
this research only focuses the translation strategies in a movie. Movie is a type of
visual communication which used moving pictures and sound to tell stories or
inform people in every part of the world who watch movies as a type of
entertainment, a way to have fun. Movies also become the communication tools
because movies are transferring ideas and might be one of the information
sources which has extended influence. In this era, the film industry not only
produces movies which has a good quality, but also faces a translation problem.
When faced a translation problem, a translator is an important thing to solve
translation problems. The translator is someone who conveys material
communicated in one language such as English into another language like
Indonesian without losing the literal meaning or nuances of the original work.
The researcher interests to analyze a movie entitled The Croods. Itis a 2013
American 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by
DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It features the voices
of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, and
Cloris Leachman. The film is set in a fictional prehistoric Pilocene era known as The
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a prehistoric genius who comes up with revolutionary new inventions as they trek
through a dangerous but exotic land in search of a new home.
The Croodswas written and directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders,
and produced by Kristine Belson and Jane Hartwell. The film premiered at the 63rd
Berlin Internatuonal Film Festival on February 15, 2013, and was released in the
United States on March 22, 2013. As part of the distribution deal, the film is the
first from DreamWorks Animation to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, since the
end of their distribution deal with Paramount Pictures.
The Croods received generally positive reviews, and proved to be a box
office success, earning more than $587 million on a budget of $135 million, and
launching a new franchise, with a sequel set for December 22, 2017, and a TV
series in development. Since there is a globalization in a movie industries era, a lot
of producers compete to make a unique story which can be consumed both of
adults and children. The Croodsis one of the movies which fits both to adults and
children. The study of translation strategies a focus at this matter. The researcher
wants to know if there are types of subtitling strategies used in The Croods.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Based on the background of the study above, the problems are stated as
follows:
1. What kind of subtitling strategies are found in The Croods?
2. What strategies are mostly used in The Croods?
1.3 Scope of the Study
Since on the background of the research that has been explained above,
the scope of the study is to discover what types subtitling strategies are found in
the subtitles of The Croods. The researcher sets some scopes in this study. The
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the description of translation, translation, translation process, translator,
audiovisual translation, subtitle, and subtitling strategies.
The subtitling analysis used in this study is from Gottlieb (1992: 166) since
this theory is very suitable for analyzing subtitle text.
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of the study are focused on finding the subtitling strategies
in every scene of the movie that have been translated in The Croods through
English subtitle into Indonesia subtitle. Then, to classify subtitling strategies which
used the most in The Croods.
1.5 Significance of the Study
From this study, the researcher expects that the study can be useful for:
1. The researcher
The resear her a ts to de elop the resear her’s skill a d k o ledge primarily about subtitling strategies.
2. The readers
The resear her a ts to de elop the reader’s skill.
3. Dian Nuswantoro University
The researcher hopes that this research can be a reference for the
students of Dian Nuswantoro University particularly for English
Department specialized in Translation Section so that they get
knowledge and comprehension about subtitling strategies.
1.6 Thesis Organization
This research can be divided into five chapters, and every chapter
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First chapter explains about introduction. In this chapter, the
Researcher gives six elements, as follows; background of the study,
statement of the problems, scope of the study, objective of the study,
significance of the study and thesis organization.
Second chapter explains about review of related literature. This
chapter includes theories of language, translation and subtitling strategies
based on Gottlieb theories.
Third chapter explains about research method. This chapter
includes research design, unit of analysis, source of data, technique of
data collection and technique of data analysis.
Fourth chapter contains findings and discussion of subtitling
strategies used in The Croods movie.
